08.09.2016 - 17:11 [ Reuters ]

Exclusive: Turkish intelligence helped ship arms to Syrian Islamist rebel areas

(21.5.2015) Turkey‘s state intelligence agency helped deliver arms to parts of Syria under Islamist rebel control during late 2013 and early 2014, according to a prosecutor and court testimony from gendarmerie officers seen by Reuters.

The witness testimony contradicts Turkey‘s denials that it sent arms to Syrian rebels and, by extension, contributed to the rise of Islamic State, now a major concern for the NATO member.